SBI PO Prelims 2017: Cloze Test – Set 6

Hello and welcome to exampundit. Here are two set of English Quiz for SBI PO Prelims on Cloze Test.

Set 1

In the following passage there
are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below
the passage and against each, five words, are suggested, one of which fits the
blank appropriately. Find out the word in each case.

As the Supreme Court
considers _____(1)_____ it should lift the ban on fresh _____(2)_____ of diesel-powered vehicles in the National Capital
Region, the government needs to draw up an effective plan that will address the
poor air quality. The executive has to act and not wait for the _____(3)_____ to tell it what it has to do in its
legitimate domain of decision-making.

For one, it has brought forward
the _____(4)_____ of BSVI standards for fuel to 2020. This
will drastically cut down diesel vehicle emissions to petrol levels for all
pollutants: slash 55% of the particulate matter and 47% of nitrous oxide
emissions.

The government now needs to _____(5)_____ up a viable and effective plan to improve
air quality in the interim period. Its proposal to buy back old cars is
financially unviable.

In the following passage there
are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below
the passage and against each, five words, are suggested, one of which fits the
blank appropriately. Find out the word in each case.

That is at the level of
actual _____(1)_____ . But planning can and should run ahead of
actual demand. This is vital, for example, to ensure that a _____(2)_____ large part of the surface of a planned town’s
future_____(3)_____ is made up of
roads, parks, playgrounds and other public spaces.

This will mean a detailed
planning process in the_____(4)_____ of
a new town, such as Andhra Pradesh’s new capital Amaravati under construction
right now, demarcating areas that cannot be_____(5)_____ on or utilized for any purpose. Retrofitting
vital infrastructure on a densely settled stretch of urban sprawl will be
hugely expensive.